Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised.

How do you lay down at night on your pillow after you've just preached a six-part sermon series on why tasting alcohol will send you straight to hell?

But yet then you come home, you molest your

daughter, and now you can go to sleep. I don't understand how, like, somebody gets to that point.

You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental,

physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. The testimony

shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors.

Not all legal outcomes are known or final. Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven

guilty in the court of law. Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski. All right, everybody,

welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. Wendy, thank you so much for joining me on today's show.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to finally be here. Yeah, the keyword is finally be here.

Like, we've been trying to set this up for a long time.

And, you know, I'm so glad we're finally sitting across from each other.

And I want to know a little bit about kind of your introduction to the church world.

You know, like what was kind of your first memories of being part of a church?

Well, when I was born, my dad was already a Baptist preacher.

So, you know, I don't know if they had me in the baptistery.

So the real question is, can you remember a time before that?

Never.

No, no.

I literally think I was probably at church before I turned one week old.

You know, that was just the thing.

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